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John Macdonald Aiken

1880 – 1961

Spectral Index
Conservator's Lab · Optical Analysis

The Optical Fingerprint of John Macdonald Aiken

Every work plotted by its measured colour saturation and tonal contrast — the numbers reveal the painter's hand.

Specimens 16 Axis X Saturation Axis Y Contrast Mode Spectro-Plot
Color Saturation
Tonal Contrast
Muted
Vivid
Dramatic
Soft

These are not impressions — they are measurements. The cluster reveals John Macdonald Aiken's optical signature: a coordinate in colour-space where the painter's hand returns again and again.

Measured
Saturation
Contrast
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